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Twitter updates for 2008-05-31

Posted on May 31, 2008 by mogrify
  • Really got something going here :) #
  • Up early doing some hacking. #
  • Gehry's design for the Beekman Tower in NYC - http://tinyurl.com/5axtny #
  • Nouvel's design for a tower near MoMA - http://tinyurl.com/5jv8×5 #
  • Make a Google Map fill the entire browser window, right to the edges. Beautiful.
    html, body, #map { height: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0; } #
  • Heading to the Ashland farmer's market soon. #
  • Curious: for laptop input, does anyone use the pointing stick instead of the touchpad? Touchpad seems far superior to me. #
  • @korym Right near Ashland coffe & tea, in the city hall parking lot. It's a good scene! #
  • @korym I don't see why not :) #
  • @korym The market was very nice and there were several dogs there. One of the farmers has a bloodhound. #
  • Mark Warner's first TV ad: http://tinyurl.com/67n9ov #
  • Replacing our air filters so we can fire up the A/C. #
  • Hm, Barack Obama resigned from Trinity Church. #
  • I imagine much will be made of that in the coming days. #
  • I'm afraid it will be seen as a move of political convenience rather than anything else. Perhaps it is. #

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Twitter updates for 2008-05-30

Posted on May 30, 2008 by mogrify
  • @QueenofSpain We went to the one in Williamsburg, VA. There's nothing quite like it. Think: wet Disney meets Little House on the Prairie. #
  • Scarlett Johansson did an album of Tom Waits covers! ::head explodes:: http://tinyurl.com/4×4slf #
  • Skimming Pitchfork reviews and updating my list. #
  • Best album title so far, by Atmosphere: "When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold." #
  • If I read Pitchfork diligently, I will eventually reach The End Of All Indie Music. At that point will I be enlightened. #
  • @vmarinelli I have one simple Facebook rule: Ignore. It's so simple that it fits several times in one tweet. Ignore. Ignore. Ignore. Ignore. #
  • RSS Zero! First time in months. Ahhhh. #
  • Hm, I'm very much a typical Reddit reader, except that I have a job. http://reddit.com/info/6lbr7/comments/ #
  • Hm, forgot to put my music on. Better remedy that. #
  • Seeing if I can put together a map of all the vehicle emissions inspection stations in Virginia. #
  • Wrote a geocoding utility in Java to get the locations of the inspection stations. It uses the Yahoo! geocoding API. #
  • @mn0001 Have fun! #
  • Barack Obama's campaign needs software developers! http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/techinterest #

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Twitter updates for 2008-05-29

Posted on May 29, 2008 by mogrify
  • Pagination FTW! #
  • If a program doesn't auto-update itself, it isn't finished. I'm looking at you, Winamp. #
  • Bending ASP.NET to my will. #
  • Why do Visible="<%# true %>" and Visible="<%# false %>" do the same thing? #
  • NYTimes: "…become popular with young white couples, forcing many longtime residents to… move away." There goes the neighborhood. #
  • @mn0001 Well well well! Welcome to the Twitterverse :) #
  • And by extension, hello @kasten and @alexiskn. #
  • Submitting my last couple of timecards. Oh, the mundanity. #
  • BBC RSS feed has Bear Stearns and Bishop Tutu in consecutive headlines. Picturing a bear in a tutu, can't help it. #
  • Fruit or vegetable? Wikipedia to the rescue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable "Vegetable" is purely culinary, not botanical. #
  • So apparently, if you think it's a vegetable, it is. If you think it's a fruit, it is. How liberating! #
  • Watching @mn0001 and @kasten have a gazpacho fight. #
  • So I was approached by a Google recruiter on LinkedIn. She wants to talk. Have sent my resume. Could be interesting, who knows? #
  • @waynesutton Thanks for that, I had missed the API limit. Explains the flakiness of my app today (beyond the usual flakiness). #
  • McClellan: you don't get any points for releasing your tell-all memoir in May 2008. Release it five years ago and we'll talk. #
  • Guess what: we all know the war was a propoganda campaign. We knew it already, back when you were still up there lying in our faces. #
  • Trying to reduce the screen flicker in my curses Twitter app. #
  • Adding color to the as-yet-only-cheekily-named command-line Twitter app. #
  • Testing: @mogrify. #
  • http://twitpic.com/1lwn - Latest screenshot (hang on, let me PrintScrn here) #
  • @insanity_rocks tada if you want a simple todo list; RTM if you want tags, categories, maps, dates, etc. etc. etc. Both are good. #
  • Looks like I'm headed to the Ginter botanical gardens now to meet the family. #
  • @charliepark So. Awesome. #
  • Check out Sigur Rós' new video! http://sigurros.com/dvd3.asp Great song, great band, naked people frolicking about. Yeah, so um, NSFW. #
  • Listening to The Chipmunks. Apparently the CD was not hidden properly. #
  • @vmarinelli It's nice, esp. for little kids. And beautifully maintained. #
  • Twitter is the only - only! - thing that has ever made me consider carrying a phone with me at all times. Otherwise? Worst. Idea. Ever. #
  • Phones that have broadband web access do not count. I'd take one of those and turn off the phone part. #

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Twitter updates for 2008-05-28

Posted on May 28, 2008 by mogrify
  • In my study is an enormous mess. I'll set the place on fire, I guess. What would I do with all the junk? Stuff it in some massive trunk? #
  • Throwing away my old Palm Vx. #
  • Hey! I found two Pentiums! That's dual-core, baby! #
  • Yes, I'm live-blogging Operation Clean Up The Study. Tune in now! #
  • Q: What are all these things here that have never been opened and are taking up space? A: Storage boxes from Ikea! Score! #
  • No wonder audiocassettes fell out of favor. No one could find any. They're all in my study. #
  • Old Shiner Bock bottle! #
  • Stern magazine from 2001 with Harry Potter on it. #
  • @jmlumpkin Bet you didn't find a copy of Ubuntu 6.06 Beta! #
  • Found my copies of Fallout and Fallout 2, aka digital meth. #
  • @jmlumpkin OK, you win :) Unless I find something older… #
  • Ah, a box full of cables. Looks like a Comcast van exploded. #
  • Found the shortest ethernet cable I have ever seen. It's less than a foot, I think. #
  • And another one! I could host a LAN party for people with no concept of personal space. #
  • A discman! Can you imagine leaving the house with only 80 minutes of music on your person? Medieval. #
  • I found my degree. It's a BA in Psychology. I'd forgotten because I never use it. #
  • Assembly of Ikea storage boxes threatens to derail the project. #
  • @kamenlee Feel 'meh' about my host (Dreamhost). If 'meh' is what you're shooting for, don't hesitate. #
  • They have different laws of physics in Sweden. That's the only explanation for Ikea. #
  • Also, little known fact: MySQL is built entirely out of spare IVAR shelf parts. That's why it's so fast. #
  • Twenty years from now, all the Twitter engineers' kids will be in therapy due to lack of parenting. #
  • @mogrifette Bummer. #
  • @mogrifette Want to assemble Ikea boxes? :D #
  • @mogrifette I'm assembling one for your reference ;) #
  • The Twitter API has cut me off. #
  • Found a box of unspeakably ancient raisins. Like, Indiana Jones ancient. #
  • @peeppeep I was going to tell you which one is right, but it can't be done without sounding like an asshole. Even though you asked. #
  • Yip yip yip yip yip yip oh my god yip yip yip yip #
  • I love dogs, really I do. The thing in my neighbor's yard is not a dog. It is a rat with a collar and an inferiority complex. #
  • @kamenlee GoDaddy is evil, please do not choose them. The universe will thank you someday. #
  • Removable floppy drive for a laptop I threw away long ago! #
  • S3 ViRGE/GX video board! #
  • Need to do some electronics recycling. #
  • @mogrifette mogrifido, heh, I like that. Maybe she needs her own Twitter account like @HussiTheDog. #
  • Found an old computer microphone, perhaps it even works. #
  • Big fat no on the microphone there. #
  • Okay, done enough damage for one night. Sweet dreams, Twitterland. #
  • Woohoo, GMail Manager now works with Firefox 3! http://longfocus.com/firefox/gmanager/ #
  • Anyone else here work in downtown RVA? Curious who's nearby. #
  • 'Miracle fruit' rewires your taste buds, turns sour to sweet http://tinyurl.com/4o73uk #
  • @thebrowncoat Congratulations!! #
  • So… cold… in… here… #
  • At least the pagination button isn't there, taunting me, when I know it won't work anyway. #
  • Oh, they're making a film version of "The Road," by Cormac McCarthy. I loved that book! http://tinyurl.com/4tuzep #
  • With the child tax credit, we paid no taxes last year. Having babies is fun AND profitable. #
  • Silly Twitter… everybody knows birds can't lift a whale. #
  • Monkeys, brains, and robots. Who could ask for anything more? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7423184.stm #

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Twitter updates for 2008-05-27

Posted on May 27, 2008 by mogrify
  • @vmarinelli I love me some Otep. Their cover of 'Breed' totally kicks ass. #
  • @vmarinelli Awww, shucks. I'm flattered, thank you. You rock. #
  • @clapifyoulikeme Armadillos. #
  • Rewriting the command-line Twitter thingy to pack in more awesomeness. #
  • @clapifyoulikeme I swear I didn't. I grew up in Texas and I knew not to mess with armadillos because of the leprosy. #
  • @clapifyoulikeme Incidentally, armadillos are possibly the stupidest mammals you will ever encounter. But cute stupid, not pitiful stupid. #
  • @vmarinelli My daughter is standing on the coffee table headbanging to 'Perfectly Flawed.' Unprompted. :) #
  • Crap. The Python curses module doesn't support Unicode. Can y'all not use any funky characters on Twitter plz? Kthxbye. #
  • Sending this from the new version of the Twitter command line app. #
  • When Python's documentation website is down, it's more difficult to write Python programs. #
  • @charliepark You better hope not. #
  • Got a nice dinner ready for @mogrifette when she gets home. #
  • "Choose your own adventure" version of Pong! Riveting! http://paperconsole.com/ #

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Twitter updates for 2008-05-26

Posted on May 26, 2008 by mogrify
  • Obama at Wesleyan: http://tinyurl.com/6o2c66 #
  • Congratulations, @MarsPhoenix! #
  • If the Webbies had a Special Olympics-type counterpart, Twitter would win. #
  • Going to correct a mistake I made yesterday, which was to forget to make coffee. Paid for that one. #
  • @peeppeep Do I detect some bitterness about working on Memorial Day? #
  • BBC: "The probe has sent back pictures of a flat landscape with few rocks." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7411113.stm #
  • Zoomorphic cartography: http://tinyurl.com/5z52tt See, now you're smarter! #
  • @peeppeep Right on. #
  • Actually, Evel Knievel once got kicked out of his day care for doing this. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7419655.stm #
  • Headed to the Sears outlet for a freezer, and Toys'R'Us for a kiddie pool. #
  • Pool bought. Freezer not. #
  • Need a screwdriver (hand tool) and a screwdriver (beverage). #
  • Going to watch the Memorial Day parade on Lakeside in a bit. #
  • @jmlumpkin Yeah, we have some friends on Lakeside so we will be in their yard. Going early to avoid traffic weirdness. #
  • Back at the house. Parade was sparse but spirited. The Republicans threw candy at us. #
  • @vmarinelli Sorry we missed you, we don't have txt on our celly so no Twitter. #
  • We just broke in the kiddie pool and had a blast. Mia was jumping off the slide thingy, very daring. #
  • @vmarinelli I'm more worried that the term "motorboating" wasn't readily available in your vocabulary. #
  • Hm, reddit got redesigned http://www.reddit.com/ #

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Twitter updates for 2008-05-25

Posted on May 25, 2008 by mogrify
  • Had an excellent, fun, and productive day with @charliepark and family. Came home with a large trashcan full of alpaca poop. #
  • @vmarinelli <3 #
  • Reading the New York Times (bits, not dead trees) and hanging out with the kids. #
  • McCain's campaign would like you to think it is not influenced by lobbyists. http://tinyurl.com/6l34ou #
  • Flickring. #
  • Put some oatmeal on the stove. Good times ahead. #
  • Greeting cards for dudes: http://tinyurl.com/6dl54v #
  • Delusions of grandeur: http://tinyurl.com/66pxqp #
  • Rice Boy is complete. i really injoyed it. I'f you haven't read it yet, do: http://www.rice-boy.com/ #
  • Lunch: homemade hummus. Need a nap. Badly. #
  • Picked a whole lot of strawberries and put in another garden bed. Exhausted but still no nap opportunity. (= at least one kid asleep). #
  • Enjoying a delicious fresh strawberry smoothie. #
  • My daughter is a walking nightmare today. She's screaming at me from the next room. #

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Twitter updates for 2008-05-24

Posted on May 24, 2008 by mogrify
  • Damn you Twitter, accept my updates! #
  • Of course THAT is the one that gets through. #
  • I actually have my laptop… on my lap! How awesome is that?! #
  • There are loud people outside. And one damn yappy dog who has been barking for the last three hours. #
  • @mogrifette says Hummer sales are down 45% and Prius sales are up 54%. And she's usually right, so you'd better listen. #
  • Time to get ready for bed, which is less fun than this. Hence the hesitation. #
  • Mumble mumble. #
  • Coffee + oatmeal + Radiohead - early = pretty decent morning. #
  • @charliepark You're a saint. I will drink mine, and then I will drive to your house and drink yours. Whee! #
  • If you are planning to buy asparagus at the Lakeside farmer's market, you'd better get there before @mogrifette. She's on a mission. #
  • Composing a tweet is mentally very similar to composing a haiku, sometimes. #
  • The BBC headline for the Clinton/RFK story used to be "Clinton 'sorry' for Kennedy remark", but they've now removed the quotes :) #
  • A panel of BBC experts has evaluated Clinton and determined that she is, in fact, sorry. #
  • @mogrifette is back with 5 bundles of asparagus :) #
  • Heading out to casa @charliepark for a day of playing, plotting, planning, and hacking. #

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Twitter updates for 2008-05-23

Posted on May 23, 2008 by mogrify
  • What's happening behind the scenes at Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/6j6bex - Kudos, y'all, good luck. #
  • PearBudgeting. #
  • I'm going to have to learn a lot more about WebSphere before I can do anything with it. #
  • Setting up a JNDI data source in WebSphere, which is just what I always wanted to do when I was a kid. #
  • Oh, great. WebSphere is wrapping my shiny new OracleDataSource in a WSJdbcDataSource, which breaks my application. Thanks, WebSphere! #
  • @dims Thanks! I'm looking at that… it'd be nicer to get the underlying data source, but I may be able to make it work with just the co … #
  • Fantastic, I got my web service working in WebSphere! #
  • @dims Thanks, that was the right approach. Works like a charm! #
  • Cleaning up the office and packing things, in preparation for the move to the 12th floor. #
  • @mogrifette Well done! Mother of the year right here, folks. #
  • Load testing the web service, because I can. #
  • Filling out some passport forms for the mogrifiddles. #
  • @stevegarfield http://iswhentwitterisdowndownwhentwitterisdown.com/ #
  • @vmarinelli My brain just exploded. #
  • @vmarinelli I drew a diagram and I'm better now. #
  • Listening to Radiohead's "All I Need" from the Bristow concert - the 1st song on the setlist, ergo the 1st song I saw them play live. #
  • Add another line to John McCain's presidential qualifications: "Apparently free of cancer." Hey, every little bit helps. #
  • Mark Warner is out-fundraising Gilmore 8 to 1! http://tinyurl.com/3oh7jz #
  • Aching because of the bruises on my back. My dog knocked me down on the stairs last night. #
  • @kamenlee Well, I fell down about eight of them, thankfully on my back, feet first, so no serious problems. Hurt a lot, though. #
  • @kamenlee A few choice words were spoken, at, shall we say, an increased decibel level. Things may or may not have been thrown at the dog. #
  • @kamenlee No doubt. It was just a gentle push in the right place :) #
  • @korym No worries, nothing debilitating. It happens :) #
  • @korym You mean the lead singer of the Cars? Yeah, I guess you're right :) I'm blond though… in person I usually get Matt Damon. #
  • @korym Oh, I knew there was something about cars, heh. Can picture him :) #
  • This day is craawling by. #
  • In my last tweet I said "craawling." I didn't mean to add that extra A, but I think it actually made the tweet better. #
  • @vmarinelli Someone should totally set up a fake Eva Gabor Twitter account. #
  • Going through followees and following some I missed. #
  • I can't bring myself to follow people with thousands of followees and far fewer followers. #
  • How do you follow 19,000 people and still use Twitter effectively? I declare that you can't. And therefore you are not participating. #
  • @korym Right, that's true. But then there are no hard feelings if I don't follow. And no karma penalty. #
  • @peeppeep And that is why I love Twitter. #
  • Okay, I'm confident that my Twitter karma is in good standing. Also blocked a few spam followers. #
  • Can I block spammers but still count them in my follower total? ;) #
  • Okay, I'm heading home now. Slightly late. #

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Twitter updates for 2008-05-22

Posted on May 22, 2008 by mogrify
  • @vmarinelli But girls suck at math! #
  • @dims Thanks! It worked without that, it was just a warning. I'm up and running. #
  • @charliepark Not a problem! #
  • @cdrane Curious: are you getting your Henrico crime data from me at http://henricocrime.org ? #
  • @cdrane BTW that'd be most definitely good, not bad. I'd be glad to know I helped. #
  • @WyldGade @korym I am also arachnophilic. Love to watch them. No spiders are killed in my house. #

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